Stagecraft

Aimed at both specialist and non-specialist teachers, these imaginative drama resources will improve your students’ skills through practical stagecraft lesson plans based on four plays. Each module contains five KS3 and five KS4 worksheets, lesson plans and extracts from the play. The plays are Antigone by Jean Anouilh; Our Day Out by Willy Russell; The Tempest by William Shakespeare; and Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw. Resources are suitable for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 students of all abilities.

Worksheets cover: Sound and movement; Directors and actors interpretation; Using the whole body on stage; The narrator/chorus; Internal and external action.